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Bad Boy Running

Ep 670 | Unpacking the Kenyan Doping Epidemic - Christopher Kelsall

Bad Boy Running

Jody Raynsford & David Hellard

Runner, Sports, Leisure, Fitness, Ultramarathon, Marathon, Health & Fitness, Running Injuries, Running, Hobbies, Ultrarunning

4.7539 Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey, do badders, just finished with Christopher and this episode goes in depth into the reason

0:06.7

why there have been so many people who've been caught doping from Kenya.

0:10.5

But not only that, we go through all of the suggestions that people tend to have about what

0:15.5

the solution can be, looking at should agents be fined?

0:20.1

Is it the fault of coaches?

0:21.5

Is it to do with the individual?

0:23.0

Is it to do with the culture?

0:24.2

Is it to do with the institutions?

0:27.1

And we address that point by point to try and truly understand what is the cause of this and what the solutions are.

0:34.5

You're going to find it fascinating.

0:36.0

Take it away, guys.

0:38.3

They're bad. They're going to find it fascinating. Take it away, guys. They're bad, their boys, and occasionally they talk about running.

0:43.8

Yes, it's the bad boy running podcast with your host, Jodi Rainsford and David Heller.

0:50.2

Come back.

0:53.3

Baby, come back

0:54.8

But a bye bye bye bye bye bye bye I must admit I was a clown to be messing around

1:01.6

But that doesn't mean that you actually don't come back

1:05.2

Sometimes you invite someone on and then the timing just seems to be perfect

1:09.2

Because this is the week where sadly we found out about a golden trail, a UTMB, a Salomon trail runner being banned for

1:19.0

injecting cortisol. And our next guess I wanted to get on because we've talked quite a lot

1:24.1

in the last, well, through the years even, about doping in general and

1:29.4

when people get busted, whether it's the individual, whether it's systemic. And one of the big

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